Rohingya Life

To my rohingya brothers and sisters, I would like to request you to read my post if we want a peaceful community. It’s just my opinion, to you all, as a rohingya: I am a community nor a group leader! We know that even though the genocide is still ongoing, the world is more aware now. The world has seen videos and photos of what happened to us. We have been helping all the people around us to get our justice and rights. Still, no strong action is taken for our rights and to find a solution. As rohingyas, we 1st need to learn how to make our people educated by cooperating with one another in different ways so that our future generations can live and prosper. Secondly , we should learn how to respect and follow the good leaders around the world. Leadership and working for Rohingyas are not easy. Rohingyas need passionate activists, fit leaders and not politicians. We don’t need blind believers who spread rumors of our brothers and sisters! *****Our enemy is the Myanmar mil...

In accordance with the Aung San- Atlee Agreement, the constituent Assembly election produced an overwhelming majority for the AFPFL. In June, it met and began writing the new constitution. On July 19, while Assembly was in recess, Aung San and six members of the Executive Council were murdered. The Governor immediately called upon Thakin Nu to succeed the fallen hero, reorganize the government and complete the writing of a new basic law.  The Burma Constituent Assembly’s decision was in favor of complete independence, and in mid October, Thakin Nu came to London to negotiate Burma’s secession from the British Commonwealth. The outcome was the signature on 17 October 1947, of the Nu-Atlee Agreement, recognizing the Republic of the Union of Burma as a fully independent state on a date to be fixed by the UK Parliament.  The Nu-Atlee Agreement came into force on 4 January 1948, on the day of independence of Myanmar.  In Article 1 of the Nu-Atlee Agreement, the ...

Born in Malaysia, I am truly honoured to be in this book together with awesome Malaysians, Refugees and migrants. The book has wonderful words and photographs! I remember back in 2016 when Kenny Loh meet with me. He was friendly and warm enough to talk me through and taking photos of my life. My tears ran down while I was explaining my situation to him where I lived, a tiny room at the back of a building. It housed more than 20 people and there was only one bathroom to serve our needs. It was stifling hot under the zinc roof, but I was grateful for the roof over my head. In my room, there were a few mementos to remind him of home. I hope that people will read and share my story. I want others to acknowledge the right of my people to exist in a country that we call home. Finally, the story is to reach a global stage. My photos are being exhibited at Ruang Think City. Now the compilation is finally released and after launch of the born in Malaysia book, I managed to spend ...

By F M T Rohigya refugee Ziaur Rahman tells of the horrors of life as a victim of human traffickers . PETALING JAYA: Rohingya refugee Ziaur Rahman, then 20, was kidnapped while he was walking around his settlement in Bangladesh and sold a total of seven times over the next three months. He said he was kidnapped by people who were themselves from the refugee camps. “They mix around with the Bangladeshi and Myanmarese and Rohingyas. You cannot identify them,” he said. Life was already a struggle in the squalid conditions at the camp in Cox’s Bazaar. “I was walking around the camp when three people came and took me to a place at the river nearby. They started kicking me and punching me.” His hands were tied and he could not fight back. “They kept me there for three hours. I was crying, and I was scared because they had guns, and they were dangerous.” Eventually, the traffickers forced him on to a small boat, where he spent the next three days at sea with no food o...